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Monday, 29 February 2016

Latest news from Naked Security (02/29/2016)

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Monday, 29 February 2016
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The "HawkEye" attack: how cybercrooks target small businesses for big money

Here's a type of malware attack that makes it easy for low-tech criminals to pull off high-tech crimes...

Google knows where your photos were taken

Street View images + machine learning = Google pinpointing almost any pic.

How mobile apps leak user data that's supposedly off-limits

Ad networks give away data on age, gender, whether we have kids, income, political affiliation, martial status and more, researchers found.

Tor users being actively blocked on some websites

On other sites, they're being fed a degraded service or forced to deal with "awful" CAPTCHAs.

"Acceptable Ads": Are there any? And who gets to monetize them?

OK, just how much do you hate web and mobile ads? Necessary evil? Must destroy all? Or somewhere in between?

Disney rumored to be using anti-drone drones to protect Star Wars filming

Disney production teams will be filming scenes for "Star Wars: Episode VIII" in Croatia, and the studio is rumored to be taking exceptional measures to keep any footage from leaking out.

Going to RSA? Get exclusive free swag!

Heading to RSA in San Francisco this week? We have a special prize giveaway just for Naked Security readers!

Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week

From the Apple/backdoors debate to an explanation of "mousejacking" - Catch up with everything we wrote in the last seven days.

Isn't Linux immune to malware? [Chet Chat Podcast 233]

Here's the latest episode of our award-winning security podcast - enjoy!